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T. R. Hummer's new and generally pyrotechnic assortment takes its identify from the infrequent (in English) singular kind of the typical be aware "ephemera." In a piece of startling originality, the poet provides a meditation on ephemerality from the perspective of the ephemeron itself because it passes, be it the person, the atom, the particle.

Hummer's paintings is existential and atemporal. The scope of the poems steadily broadens from the outlet part, also known as "Ephemeron," via "Either/Or," that's a fulcrum, directly to plural "Ephemera." The imaginative and prescient that emerges is haunting, evoking the aftermath of a actual, mental, and non secular apocalypse.

Relentless in its stalking of the boundary among being and nonbeing, Ephemeron turns into a tour-de-force that shines a focus into darkish corners of Being, revealing but extra darkness.

Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the stipulations and prices of cultural swap, arguing that its thematic preoccupation with assimilation illuminates the functionality of literature. John Alba Cutler indicates how mid-century sociologists complex a version of assimilation that missed the interlinking of race, gender, and sexuality and characterised American tradition as homogeneous, reliable, and remarkable.

Complex analogies among Irish and Jewish historical past, among Irish and Jewish subjectivities, ensue with incredible frequency all through American literature. They keep in mind James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies through the Celtic Revival among studying Hebrew and studying Irish, and a myriad of claims of an strange dating among those peoples that is going past comparisons in their respective diasporic histories.

Reviews the ways that resourceful literature expresses non secular which means and considers the contribution of literary feedback to spiritual scholarship, conserving reciprocity exists among literature and faith.

Operating intentionally opposed to the grain of assumptions dominant within the modern literary academy, Boyers examines novels via Günter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is crucial to talk of personality, ethics, and philosophic goal if one is to appreciate those works.